Urban mobility from a women's perspective: hacktivism in mapping harassment on public transportation

• Simony C. R. de Moura IFPB
• Jucylene H. A. de Melo UFRN

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wit.2017.3411

Abstract

A programming marathon results in the emergence of a collaborative initiative between Information Technology women and Design women, which the mean objective is create a social media for tracking the harassment complaint in public transportation. A social network of feminist, called Nina. With the sharing and storage of such data, the portal will be fed and mapped the main harassment cases, identifying bus lines which have the highest crime rate, the time, the routes, and other information. The big data collected will build the violence against women mapping in public transportation, which could become a platform of social pressure against the government to ask for measures to combat gender violence in urban mobility.

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